St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-30
THE TOBOGGAN A TEACHER.
Advantages Which it Gives the Inquiring
Feminine Mind.
Shades in Anatomy. Hitherto IN
known, Pursued With Ease.
NJ yster1ous Growth of Masculine
Extremittes in Winter Garb.

probably the men who first erected tobog-
gan slides in st. Paul did not realize what
boom they were giving woman's rights.
ANY movement that tends to equalize the
educational privileges of the sexes is step
toward securing for fond parents the rea-
sonable belief that Susie, as well as Willie,
will one day be president of the United
States, cousin to the Goddess of Liberty.
and legal guardian of the American eagle.
The variety stage has long afforded
men exceptional advantages for the study
OF anatonly-advantage which were denied
down tledden women. But tobogganing
at last furnishes no men the opportunity for
pursuing the study free from annoyanceS
TO which even men are subject. a reputa-
bic man, indulging his desire for knowledge
and seeking to determine whether the tibla
and femur in pink tights are placed similar
to the tibia and femur in blue tights. is
Obliged to practice certain amount of
| fraud. He tells his wife that he is going
to a political meeting. and on the way
down, If there is anyone in the car whom
he knows, he piously turns his
eyes from the variety and rides on
couple of blocks farther, gets out in
| front of the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms, crawls
ticket seller with an apologize smile, and
sinks into his seat wearing hypoeritical,
l-really didn't want to come but-didn't-
know what-else-to do-you-know expression.
| Women are spared all this pain OF decep-
ton by the superior facilities of the
tebosgan method. They may sit at the
front window, OF walk down the street in
broad daylight, the eyes of the world upon
them, and unreproved. unrtproached,
gaze at the eg(gins) of the passing male
tobogganer. There is. however. as has
been said, no royal road to knowledge. and
women find that in their anatomical studies
the road to certain results is badly OBJ
structed-by cotton or sawdust. Far be it
from me to attempt to state positively
which it is. 1t has long been perplexing
problem, what is soul and what is budy in
man. The female anatomical student has
the difficulties of the problem increased by
the question, How much is body and how
thing else is plain to every OBJ
serving woman. The legs of Freddy.
Charley and Harry that in sum.
mer and tight pantaloons are feminine gen.
der, denoting fralty, exposed to view in
leggins and blanket knee breeches show
proportions at once surprising and suspi-
ciouS. 1t has been scientifically demon
strated by st. Paul girl that it is infinitely
easier to penetrate the skull Of the average
male tobogganer and find something inside
than it is to discover anything having feel
ing in his extremities. OF course. cold has a
benumbing tendency, and it is barely possible
that there is something about bone which is
peculiarly affected by nterS weather and
tobOgganilig. Girls minds will have ample
opportunity for exercise during the winter,
and when they become so familiar with the
nature Of bone as to know why cold, which
usually contracts. causes it to expand. they
will be warranted i'll demanding entran ce to
the next stage nearer perfect equality of |
the seXes-the ring. 1t has always seemed |
to me that when the world once knows |
Miss John l.. Sullivan. only day will pass |
before the presidential chair is enlarged to |
accommodate founceS aud crinoline. To-
bogganng is not without its advantages |
to men-it practices women in the art of |
holding their tongue. It furnishes the one |
occasion where woman will not talk. She |
can and does talk with her mouth full of |
hairpins, and if shaving were regular |
thing with her, be sure she would manage
to talk under that. But in tobogganing she
is SO afraid of being dropped by the way
that she feels she must hold on to some
thing, anything, everything-even her
tongue. Unfortunately. men are in such a
hurry going down that they do not stop
to think, and so fail to realize
what it is that makes the sport such an
awfully pleasant one. There is really no
end to the lessons tobogganing teaches
women. A girl came limping into my room
after her first nights experience. and told
me she was ready to be married. Just one
trip from the top Of the hill to the bottom
had graduated her. she said, in training
school for wives and mothers. After girl
has slid off from toboggan and rolled over
and over down 1000 feet of iced snow.
landing with bang against high board
fence, she is fully awakened to sense of
the reality of life when she picks
herself up bruised, bleeding and disjointed,
and is obliged to join the spectators in
laughing, and considering the whole thing
a huge joke. she learns clearly for the first
time in her existence that she is a woman.
In later years. as she enjoys the dogs ex-
perience of being kicked and is denied the
dogs privilege of bowling, she will find
that the habits of self-control acquired in
will endear her to the heart of
her master A man can endure whining
cur-he can kill it. but whining woman
the law protects hers unbearable.
FLORA Med.
Religions Persecution a Oxford